On 8/24/17 1:34 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:42:05 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/24/17 11:33 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:57:34 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


Oh, please. If it makes you feel happier to rationalize the assistance
you gave to the military-industrial complex that was involved in killing
hundreds of thousands of SE Asians, hey, go for it. Nothing this country
did in the war against Vietnam served our country.


So, maybe you might have considered serving in the military but only if
it was in total peacetime? Figures.

No not a chance. Harry is older than me and it WAS peace time when I
joined (64 reporting Jan 65). LBJ had just told us he would be keeping
us out of the Vietnam conflict.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/johnson%20vietnam%20lie.mp3

Harry was hiding behind his 2-S



More of your nonsense.

Nonsense is you posting things like the above without saying which
part was "nonsense".
I understand that if you registered as 2-S they were not going to
draft you.
It is also true that your chance of having to go to SE asia in 1962-3
when you were 18 was nil. It was a volunteer job then and most of the
people there were some kind of special ops that you would not have
qualified for anyway. By the time of the Gulf of Tonkin lie, you would
be in college with a GI Bill scholarship.



It is nonsense to state I was hiding behind a student status. Like
millions of young men my age, I went to college. I didn't go to college
to avoid the draft or military service, just as I didn't consider
college a trade school. Virtually everyone I knew from my high school
and several others went to college.